Author: Lavid J.
Title: Controlling thematic choices in discourse: towards a specification of contextual constraints.

 Abstract:
This paper addresses two important issues for generating pragmatically adequate texts: First, it investigates the ionfluence of factors from the communicative
context on the thematic structure of texts. We claim that thematic selection is controlled by contextual factors such as the discourse purpose and its subject
matter. This claim is empirically validated through corpus analysis where statistically these correlations as inter-stratal constraints in a multistratal text
generation architecture which can recognize and sustain the complexity of linguistic resources needed for the production of pragmatically-motivated text.

 In: Proceedings of the International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT-97), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, February
4-6, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Ed., pp. 107-118.

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